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TITLE:
Pidgin MSN "nudge" Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27010

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27010/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Pidgin 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/14677/

DESCRIPTION:
A weakness has been reported in Pidgin, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The weakness is caused due to an error when processing MSN nudge
messages from another user that is not on the buddy list. This can be
exploited to cause libpurple to crash.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.2.1.
http://www.pidgin.im/download/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Evan Schoenberg.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=23

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